5 Smart Home Ideas You Really Should Have Thought Of
Summary
TLDRThe script depicts a home automation enthusiast reminiscing about iconic YouTubers from years past. He then reviews smart home automations he's created, ranging from simple exterior lighting activated at sunset to an advanced gaming mode using contact sensors and Alexa skills. Other highlights include tracking a partner's arrival, interrupting media to display doorbell footage, and leveraging the Flick Twist as a light switch. Throughout, the narrator injects self-deprecating humor and imagines critical viewer comments.
Takeaways
- 🚀 Smart home automations have evolved significantly, with both simple and complex setups available to enhance home convenience and security.
- 💡 Installing smart bulbs in outdoor lighting is an easy and effective starting point for home automation, offering scalability and customization options.
- 🔧 Utilizing smart switches or gadgets to prevent manual interference with automated systems can streamline home automation effectiveness.
- 🛠 Creative use of smart home devices, like contact sensors on game pads, can trigger custom automations such as setting a room into gaming mode.
- 📱 Leveraging home assistant automations and Amazon Alexa routines can automate and personalize home environments based on specific actions or time of day.
- 📲 Integrating smart home technology with entertainment systems can enhance the viewing experience by automating tasks like turning on devices or adjusting settings.
- 📚 The use of specialized screen protectors, like Paperlike, can significantly improve the drawing and note-taking experience on tablets.
- 🛡️ Home assistant offers privacy-focused solutions for tracking and notifications, allowing users to keep informed about family members' locations without compromising security.
- 📷 Automating responses to doorbell rings with smart TVs or devices can streamline security and convenience by displaying video feeds directly on the screen.
- 🔍 The Flick Twist device demonstrates the potential for highly customizable controls over various home automation tasks, from lighting adjustments to playing music.
Q & A
What type of video was the narrator describing in the beginning?
-He was describing YouTube videos from around 10 years ago focused on home automation and technology.
What are some examples of basic smart home automations the narrator mentioned?
-Turning on outside lights at sunset, creating gaming mode by activating devices when picking up a gamepad, and notifying when a family member arrives at a location.
How does the narrator suggest hiding light switches to prevent family from turning off smart bulbs?
-He suggests using smart switches, wiring the switch to be permanently live, or using switch covers.
What can you do to make outside lights more advanced?
-Add motion sensors, link to doorbell, make lights change color for holidays/events.
What technology does the narrator use for his gaming automation?
-He uses a Broadlink RM4 Pro to blast IR signals and activate his Xbox, projector, and candles.
How does the narrator suggest interrupting Star Trek to show the doorbell camera?
-Use an Alexa routine triggered by the doorbell to show the feed on a Fire TV device.
What product does the narrator showcase for advanced lighting control?
-He demos the Flick Twist as a way to control lights via Alexa routines.
How does the narrator fund his YouTube channel?
-Through Patreon donations and one-time PayPal tips from supporters.
What social media does the narrator invite people to follow him on?
-Facebook, Instagram, TikTok.
What time period does the narrator imply YouTube was better?
-He implies YouTube was more enjoyable around 10 years ago.
Outlines
🏠 Home Automation Overview
The first paragraph provides an introduction to the video, with the host Paul reminiscing about a previous popular YouTuber who made home automation videos years ago. Paul notes he has also created lots of useful home automations recently, which will be covered in this video ranging from simple to more complex.
🖥️ Turn Living Room into Gaming Mode
The second paragraph describes an automation using a contact sensor on a gamepad, so that when the gamepad is picked up it will turn on various gaming devices in the living room like the Xbox and projector. Additional related ideas are suggested, like using Alexa routines or Home Assistant for further customization.
👩🏫 Know When Someone Arrives Safely
The third paragraph outlines an automation to get a notification on an Amazon Echo when a loved one arrives safely at a destination. This uses GPS tracking on phones along with Home Assistant to send announcements. Privacy implications are briefly discussed.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡automation
💡scalable
💡contact sensor
💡endpoint
💡Shield
💡flick
💡timer
💡broadlink
💡routine
💡trigger
Highlights
Smart home automations to control outside lights based on time of day or motion sensors
Use a contact sensor on gamepad to trigger gaming mode when picked up
Contact sensor routine to notify when a loved one arrives somewhere safely
Integrate video doorbell feed into TV when someone rings the doorbell
Use a flick twist as a smart home controller for lights, music, etc.
Hide light switches to prevent family from turning off smart bulbs
Scalable solution for outside lights with motion triggers, video doorbells, etc.
Very easy to install Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi
Can create custom Alexa routines to control almost anything
Use flick twist smart home controller for music, lights, thermostat
Suggests some practical smart home automation ideas
Points out that smart home devices need to be easy for families to use
Notes complexity of advanced integrations between devices/services
Encourages sharing ideas and collaborating as a community
Relies on Patreon supporters to create YouTube content full-time
Transcripts
you remember when YouTubers used to be
really cool like 10 years ago hello and
welcome back to the world of home
automation with your host Paul hibbit
that'll be me switch the rear lights
on man that guy was
awesome what a guy but he wasn't he was
a complete doofus but he did make some
of the best smart home automations ever
and I was kind of thinking do I not do
that anymore and the answer is yes I've
made loads of really cool automations
over the last few years and so without
further ad do this video is all the
really cool smart home automations that
I've created recently and they're going
to graduate from really straightforward
to Super complicated over the course of
the video
enjoy we'll start with the absolute
easiest of easy smart home automations
and that's my outside lights but this is
an often overlooked really
straightforward thing to do that almost
any body can Implement and it's really
really cheap but most importantly it's a
scalable thing you could make this much
more complicated if you want to and make
it an even better solution if you have
any outside lights of any description
just pop in a smart home bow there are
an abundance of different varieties from
e27 to gu10s and personally I have some
gu10s in my outside lights from a
company called Ajax their Zito range is
really bright and really color and
they've worked perfectly as outside
lights for me and once your smart home
bulbs are in place just hide the light
switch from your stupid stupid
family I'm kidding I mean they they
probably won't keep turning off your
small home bulbs they'll probably just
do as they're told you just tell them
they won't do it keep doing wow the land
of make
believe they definitely will so you can
either do one of three things you could
install a smart white Switch which I am
going to do you could actually just wire
the switch to be permanently live cover
the wiring over with a cover plate and
then control the bulbs directly using
your smart home equipment or you could
use what I call marriage soers which is
little things that just go over the
switch to stop people pressing them you
could then use Amazon Alexa routines or
home assistant automations to have these
lights come on automatically at Sunset
and go off at say 11:30 at night you
could even have them react to your video
doorbell or an Ikea motion sensor cuz
the Ikea motion sensors are Splash proof
at the very least and then have them
come on whenever somebody approaches the
house the added bonus being of course
that if you have colored RGB lights you
could set them up for doing things like
Christmas themes or Halloween or scaring
off burglar by having them flash red
whenever your house Salon goes off the
scalability of this solution is really
really cool and definitely something you
should be thinking about so is that um
was that one good
a good automation or too obvious thank
you Captain Obvious how would we ever
know unless you were here to tell us
you're welcome citizen
away right how about this one
then you could use a Smart Home contact
sensor on your gamad so that every time
you pick your game pad up from it stand
it turns your living room into gaming
mode I did this with my broadlink rm4
Pro which blasted infrared signals to
switch on everything from my Xbox to my
projector and even some infrared battery
powered candles but if you have a smart
TV and an Xbox you could actually turn
both on using Amazon Alexa skills that
you can enable right now for free your
only purchase if you wanted to do
exactly what I have done in that case
would be a contact sensor and there's
one very cheaply in my description now
if you're interested in picking one up
go check the link down there and this is
another really scalable solution ution
because you could use Amazon Alexa or
you could do an awful lot more using
home assistant with everything from
locking your front door to using a
broadlink rm4 pro to lower the projector
screen switch candles on and do all
those good things that I did and it's
really easy to do in home assistant all
you've got to do is get your head around
using broadlink to send remote commands
using a service call as part of a
routine in home assistant very
easy
[Music]
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work now this one will do one of two
things you'll either go oh this is
perfect I'll be able to tell if little
Mercedes got to school on time or you'll
wrap your head in tinfoil because you
think your minute by- minute whereabouts
is of value to some shady government
operative who is trying to unlock the
secret codes in your head that will turn
you into a Mindless slave that only
lives to fund Downing Street they
already did this it's called taxes you
you pay them already idiot but because
this particular automation is very
specific to home assistant and because
home assistant is a very private and
localized solution you don't really have
a lot to worry about me and Nisha are
one of those sickeningly loved up
couples that every time we go somewhere
it's like well text me when you get
there won't you I need to know need to
know that you're okay that you arrived
safely and then if we don't get a text
message cuz they forgot
then oh my God he's dead it's exactly
how my wife talks um and if you want to
avoid all this it's simply a case of
installing home assistant on a Raspberry
Pi and this is as straightforward as
taking some files from an SD card and
then just plugging them into the pie and
turning it on that's how simple it is to
actually install an instance of Home
assistant from there you install a
companion app on each of your phones
which is again just downloading
something from the store and you can
then create a routine in home assistant
that says when Nisha arrives at the
Target location make an announcement on
my Amazon Echo to let me know she got
there safely from there you can spy on
your loved ones all you like
brilliant
weirdo so you're watching Star Trek in
bed like the Preposterous nerd that you
are and all of a sudden the doorbell
goes and you've got a notification going
off in your pocket so you squeeze your
phone out of your jeans get it in front
of your fat face unlock the phone pull
down the notification window click the
notification and then wait for nest to
load which of course takes a prop ously
long time and then you realize there's
some you don't even want to
speak to What If instead you could have
it so that Star Trek was playing and was
automatically interrupted by your nest
video doorbell as soon as it was pressed
you could actually ignore this massive
dumbass without ever getting your phone
out of your pocket how cool would that
be what you've just watched is from a
tutorial that I made a couple of years
ago that you can go and watch here or
here wherever it is and it basically
takes you through all of the steps and
you can see for yourself how to do this
using any android-based TV or Nvidia
Shield to load up literally any camera
feed from any manufacturer even if they
don't have the ability to act as part of
a routine in Amazon Alexa don't get
don't go there yet um this is last res
stuff this tutorial it's really quite a
complicated way of doing it and it's
only if you're in a situation where you
want to load it on an Nvidia Shield or
an Android TV if you have a fire stick
or a Fire TV Cube there is a much much
easier way of achieving this and I'm
going to take you through it now as long
as you have a doorbell that is capable
of starting an Amazon Alexa routine then
you can create a customized end point
people often forget just how powerful
this customized endpoint is I can type
in any voice command and the routine
will run as if I spoke to it like
this
okay now if you have HDMI C turned on in
your Fire Sticks settings it will
actually automatically turn the TV on
and then give you the feed even if your
TV is off which is really cool but if
you're out of the house visiting friends
and someone rings the doorbell it's
going to turn your TV on and it's going
to stay on indefinitely until you come
and turn off there is only one way
around this that I can think of using
Amazon Alexa and that would be to set a
little timer that says after 2 minutes
turn the TV off again this is fine
unless you were watching the TV at the
time in which case it's going to turn
your TV off but if you've answered the
door maybe that's something you want
could actually work out
well so I showed you guys recently how I
was able to use my flick twist as a demo
for a smart bulb and how I was able to
use it as a controller to load my
favorite streaming services on my Nvidia
Shield that was a complicated Affair
using home assistant the spoke
configuration. yam files but you could
also do this exact same thing with a
fire stick and an Alexa routine without
home assistant very easily using the
customized endpoint we just discussed I
also showed you how you could use it as
a Spotify button for skipping tracks
loading playlists and playing and
pausing music and even as a controller
for your central heating to control any
smart homebased thermostat and three of
you responded to say what's the point
completely pointless
compl all all of that
was someone complained in the comments
the other day that I shouldn't be using
that joke that uh I shouldn't be abusing
myself why I break the habit of a
lifetime disgusting second of all don't
watch any cartoons will you don't
believe what they do to that road
runner anyway if you haven't already
thought of it the other very obvious use
for the flick twist is this as I've
already pointed out your family don't
give a toss about your smart bulbs I
have in the past wired my light switch
to be permanently on and attached a
simple flick button over the top of a
blanking plate to control my dining room
smart lights but can you imagine how
much cooler that would be if you put a
flick twist in its place this thing can
start Amazon Alexa routines which means
that you can get it to control anything
you could use the push button to
actually turn the lights on and off the
dial to dim the lights up and down and a
push and twist to get this thing to set
a particular playlist going on your
dining room speakers if you want one as
usual links in the description what do
you guys reckon let me know in the
comments if you've got better ideas or
if you've implemented these same ideas
in your house I would love to learn from
you guys too we are a community it would
be great for you to be able to share
those things with other people in the
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